Editing Experian (section)

=== 2015 ===
[[File:2015-10-05 experian-letter-redacted.jpg|thumb|upright|Letter from Experian North America CEO, Craig Boundy, informing T{{Non breaking hyphen}}Mobile customer their [[personal information]] was compromised in Experian server hack.]]
On 1 October 2015 Experian announced that they had discovered a [[data breach]] existing between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015. As many as 15 million people who used the company's services, among them customers of American cellular company [[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]] who had applied for Experian credit checks, may have had their [[private information]] exposed.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thielman |first=Sam |date=2 October 2015 |title=Experian hack exposes 15 million people's personal information |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/experian-hack-t-mobile-credit-checks-personal-information |url-status=live |access-date=2015-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201120620/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/experian-hack-t-mobile-credit-checks-personal-information |archive-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Consumers |date=5 October 2015 |url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/experian-breach-affects-15-million-consumers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916120259/https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/experian-breach-affects-15-million-consumers/ |archive-date=16 September 2017 |access-date=2017-09-23 |publisher=Krebs on Security}}</ref>